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Origin: Umited Kingdom
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: Motorola 68008
Based on: QDOS
Wikipedia: Minerva
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 1.97 | 2010
Minerva – an operating system developed by Stuart McKnight, Jonathan Oakley and Laurence Reeves of QView (UK) as an alternative to the Sinclair QDOS installed on the Sinclair QL computers. Minerva fixed numerous bugs in QDOS and was so different from it in code that some consider it a different operating system rather than a reimplementation of QDOS.
The Sinclair QL (for Quantum Leap) is a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in 1984, as an upper-end counterpart to the ZX Spectrum.
The system was later commercialized by Tony Firshman of TF Services up to version 1.89, from which point it was released into the public domain. Currently Minerva is at version 1.97 and is available in 2 different versions (on ROM):
– Minerva MKI: alternative to QDOS (on 48 KB ROM);
– Minerva KMII RTC: in addition to the new operating system, it integrates a battery-powered system clock, a small RAM and an I2C chip that drives the additional hardware.
